Beginning life as a Kickstarter campaign back in 2014, the team at Roost found a compelling, low-cost backdoor into the world of smart smoke alarms dominated by the team at Nest. Roel Peeters and James Blackwell, both formerly of Wi-Fi chip maker Ozmo, applied their Wi-Fi know-ho … | Continue reading
Young people aged between 13 to 25 years old desire happiness over possessions, new research from Amplify has revealed. | Continue reading
VB INSIGHT: Troops.ai, a Slackbot (or “app,” as Slack prefers it), is launching today to tie Salesforce CRM data to Slack — meaning salespersons can use a digital assistant to help them do what every salesperson I know hates — yanking data in and out of Salesforce. The startup is … | Continue reading
Club W, a wine club startup based in Los Angeles, is rebranding as Winc. The team has also raised an additional $17.5 million in funding co-led by the Beijing-based Shining Capital and existing investor Bessemer Venture Partners. Originally just an online marketplace, the company … | Continue reading
Supermodel Kate Upton’s Super Bowl commercial made Machine Zone’s Game of War: Fire Age into one of the best-known mobile games. And now Israel’s Plarium is using the same playbook by making actress Megan Fox into a main character for its mobile social game Stormfall: Rise of Bal … | Continue reading
VTS, a commercial leasing and asset management platforms for landlords and brokerages, today announced that it has raised a $55 million Series C funding round led by Insight Venture Partners. Previous investors OpenView and Trinity Ventures also participated. This round brings VT … | Continue reading
Welcome to Mossberg, a weekly commentary and reviews column on The Verge and Re/code by veteran tech journalist Walt Mossberg, now an Executive Editor at The Verge and Editor at Large of Re/code.Once, Apple’s built-in Mail app for iOS was a revelation. It was easy to use, yet ri … | Continue reading
If you’ve been on the internet anytime in the last five years, you’re no doubt aware of the Star Wars brand free-for-all that is today, May 4th. Dubbed Star Wars Day, it’s a time for fans to celebrate their love for the biggest movie series of all time — and for cartoon bears to … | Continue reading
What does the HubSpot & Salesforce partnership mean for you and your team? Learn the origins of the partnership and how you can benefit from it. | Continue reading
Pamela Wilson shows you what writing well really looks like and why it might be the hardest and best skill you'll ever master: read on to learn why. | Continue reading
It's difficult to understate Pandemic's impact upon board gaming. This game, in which players work together to save the world from an outbreak of deadly diseases, is the most successful cooperative board game of the last ten years, possibly of all time. Released in 2007, its blen … | Continue reading
Hulu announced this morning the launch of Hulu Documentary Films, a collection of streaming documentaries exclusive to Hulu. Or, at least, it's supposed to grow into that. As of today, Hulu is only announcing its first documentary acquisition: The Beatles: Eight Days a Week, a co … | Continue reading
Sony has started rolling out Android Marshmallow to several of its older flagship Xperia products in India. Get your update on! | Continue reading
Choosing this year’s Disrupt NY Startup Battlefield winners will be a tough job. There is an exceptionally strong and unique group of young companies competing in Startup Battlefield next week with 20 companies showcasing their innovative solutions to solving important and critic … | Continue reading
High House is a renovation project completed by Australian design studio Dan Gayfer. High House is the end product of a significant renovation | Continue reading
The Vienna Court Opera was the carefully planned highlight of Gustav Mahler’s career as a conductor. On the 11th of May, 1897 he debuted initially as a chapelmaster with Richard Wagner’s “Lohengrin” (with Hermann Winkelmann as Lohengrin and Louise Ehrenstein ... | Continue reading
SpaceX is gearing up for its next launch this week, and this one is taking place well past bedtime (at least for those of us on the East Coast). The company's Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch a Japanese communications satellite, JCSAT-14, from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 1:2 … | Continue reading
Hulu has come to New York this morning to make a big presentation in front of advertisers, and one of its highlight announcements is big subscriber growth. Hulu says that it now has 12 million subscribers, up from 9 million this time last year. That's generally good news for Hulu … | Continue reading
Hier kommt mal wieder ein Mausersatz und zwar ein recht vielversprechender: GlassOuse ist für Menschen mit Behinderungen konzipiert, die eine klassische Maus schlicht nicht bedienen können, das Gerät kommt in Form eines Headsets, der... | Continue reading
It is very plausible Craig Wright has been pretending to be Satoshi Nakamoto for much longer than people originally anticipated. | Continue reading
The VR company responsible for many of the format's early experiments in broadcasting has set its sights on live music. NextVR, which has previously streamed boxing matches, a Democratic debate, and the Daytona 500, has partnered with events company Live Nation to "broadcast hund … | Continue reading
Normally going for $100, Samsung Gear VR is available for $79.99 on eBay for a limited time. | Continue reading
NEWS OF THE MORNING Report: NBPA wants to meet with Heat officials | Warriors’ bench steps up in Game 2 | Lowry hits gym after Game 1 loss | Rockets’ legend blasts Harden | Lin wants to stay with Hornets No. 1: Report: NBPA wants to talk with Heat officials about Bosh — When the … | Continue reading
U.K. music hardware startup Roli has raised a $27 million Series B round led by Boulder-based firm Foundry Group, representing the VC firm’s first non-U.S. investment. San Francisco-based Founders Fund and London-based BGF Ventures participated too, alongside those who plowed cas … | Continue reading
It isn’t often that you spot a fitness tracker that you can wear to the office without looking like a health nut. I’m not one, but I’d still like to track my steps each day. That’s why I’m intrigued by Garmin’s latest wearable. The Vivomove blends classic analog watch styling wit … | Continue reading
ADAC: München (ots) - In Italien verhängte Geldbußen ab 70 Euro können jetzt auch in Deutschland zwangsweise eingetrieben werden. Bislang war dies nicht möglich, da kein Vollstreckungsabkommen bestand. Zum 27. März 2016 hat der italienische Gesetzgeber ... | Continue reading
As part of the TECH5 dinner series I jumped on a flight to Stockholm to meet up with the fastest growing young tech companies in Sweden. The Scandinavian country, and in particular Stockholm, is home to technology companies including Spotify, game makers MAG Interactive (a previo … | Continue reading
Amidst the seeming chaos of social media, brands need the ability to discover valuable social media content, the metrics and visualize it. At the same time they need to build and launch campaigns, collect all the data, and use it in CRM and marketing platforms. It’s a tall order … | Continue reading
Deloitte found a way to use blockchain technology to improve product warranties at its recent three-day hackathon. The innovative product warranty demonstrates how blockchain can improve a regular task such as managing a product warranty. A summary of the application has been pos … | Continue reading
Booking.com B.V.: Amsterdam (ots/PRNewswire) - New chat functionality enables guests and accommodation providers to instantly communicate and connect both before and during the stay Today Booking.com, the global leader in connecting travellers with the widest choice ... | Continue reading
My favorite way to test any e-reader is to see if I still like using it when my reading material isn’t exactly thrilling. For the past week, I’ve been using Amazon’s newest Kindle to get through a book called Oh Crap! Potty Training and I still like reading on it more than any Ki … | Continue reading
Mobile gaming is on pace to generate $36.9 billion worldwide this year, but one of the people responsible for kicking off this industry in the first place thinks the West could reach and surpass that number by itself soon. Consumers will start spending an average of five-to-eight … | Continue reading
How do you maximize the success of your brand awareness campaign? Here are 6 steps you need to take in order to make your campaign a successful one. | Continue reading
What is experiential marketing and how does it affect your customer? | Continue reading
It's a tough time out there for smart glasses. Far from igniting a robust market for connected headgear, Google Glass did very much the opposite, cementing in the public consciousness the idea that smart glasses are weird, creepy and only worn by uberdorks.As a result, the whole … | Continue reading
The U.S. Presidential race is a gift that keeps on giving. In this case, app makers are benefiting, as candidate-oriented apps grew 60 percent on Google Play in the first quarter. Tel Aviv-based IronSource reported that its Q1 data shows political apps have increased dramatically … | Continue reading
Mamy w domu blaszane pudełko, w którym nic nie było, ale szkoda było go wyrzucić. Bo ładne. Pewnego dnia schowaliśmy do niego kilka ciastek. Nasza młodsza córka, która regularnie robi w domu przegląd wszystkich szafek i szuflad, dosyć szybko je odkryła. Od tamtej pory kręci się k … | Continue reading
alltours flugreisen gmbh: Düsseldorf (ots) - Das Reiseland Spanien boomt. Davon profitiert neben den Balearen und Kanaren auch die gesamte spanische Festlandsküste. Aufgrund der starken Nachfrage hat sich der Reiseveranstalter alltours kurzfristig entschieden, die ... | Continue reading
AIDA Cruises: Rostock (ots) - Am Samstag, den 7. Mai 2016, ist es endlich soweit: Die junge Schauspielerin Emma Schweiger (13) wird AIDAprima, das elfte Mitglied der AIDA Flotte, in Hamburg taufen. Für den feierlichen Taufakt laufen die Vorbereitungen auf ... | Continue reading
Opera hat es schwer auf dem Browser-Markt: Nur 60 Millionen Menschen nutzen den einst einzigartigen Browser auf dem Desktop, nur 120 Millionen mindestens ein Mal im Monat auf dem Handy. Aber aus der Nische innoviert es sich ganz gut - und für... | Continue reading
Every startup has a story to tell. From the conception of an idea, to the first lines of code, early hires, and preliminary funding rounds – every company has a unique narrative. But there are always shared experiences. Processes, tactics, and habits that shape the experience of … | Continue reading
We’re no strangers to mobile marketing automation (MMA) here at VentureBeat. It is the technology that Urban Outfitters uses to know that you bought a jacket and boots in-store yesterday, and how the publisher behind Subway Surfer finds ways to make you play a little bit longer. … | Continue reading
I’m lousy at Spotify. I use it the way I imagine my parents imagine me “doing pot.” Oblivious to the nuance but pretty well versed in the basics.I’ve been using Spotify since September of 2010 based upon the oldest payment receipt stored in my profile. Yet after all this time mos … | Continue reading
Companies rebrand themselves for dozens of reasons: a merger or acquisition, a new technology or product that disrupts the company and the market, a new CEO at the helm, or a craving to update an image that has grown tired after years of use. Sometimes a company’s top brass reali … | Continue reading
Rat mashing fans rejoice - developer Fatshark has announced three new maps for Warhammer: The End Times - Vermintide. The maps, each of which takes place outside of the Ubersreik region, will be bundled together in a DLC called Drachenfels. Not the catchiest of names, but then it … | Continue reading
One of the problems with making VR experiences feel real is that your if your body isn’t experiencing the same thing as your eyes are seeing, it can all feel a bit fake. Well, Microsoft Research has been working on a number of different solutions to this problem that might help V … | Continue reading
Charge is a new mobile internet provider who aims squarely at the generation of people who prefer to tap on their mobile devices rather than talk into them. Next week, the company is launching a $10 per month SMS-and-data plan, and a $20 per month plan that adds unlimited voice, … | Continue reading
A while back, we announced that the TNW Hack Battle is back, better than ever. And we weren’t kidding: on May 25-26, we’re once again bringing together the best developers, designers and digital creatives from around the world to build some amazing hacks. Get ready for 36 intense … | Continue reading